The Home advocate. (Farmerville, La.) 1885-1???, 1887-06-10
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| OF temptation
| Ask tbs agol Christian whether he is never
| assaulted OF rle powers OF da~.in-'>. II you
think You have conquered IN power Of temp
/ t2tipn, you are Very much mistaken.
\ man who wanted a throne pretended he
was very weak and sickiv, and il he was ele-
vattd he would soon he gone. He crawed
| upon his crutcteS TO the throne. and having
fttaine it he was strong again. He said: 1T
! was well for me while | Was looking for the
! keys Of authority that | should stoop, but
nov" TIA. have found them, why should |
stop any longer" and he threw away his
! c!utghes and was well again.
How illustrative the power of temptation!
| Iou think it is a weak and crippled influence;
| but give 1t a chance, and it will bc a tyrant
| III your soul, it will grind you to atoms No
| man has finally and for ever overcome temp
| tation until he has left the world But what
are you to do with these temptations' Tell
| everybody about thens All, what silly
| man you would be! As well might COM
| mander in a fort send word to the enemy which
gate Of the castle is least barred, as for you to
| 60 and tell what all your frailties are, and
| what your temptations are. The world will
| only scoif at you. What then must man
| do. When the waves strike him with terrific
| dash shall he have nothing to hold on TOT In
| this contest with 1.-THE world the flesh, and
tie devil" shall man have nc help, no coun-
| sell
Our text intimates something different. In
| thOs- eyes that wept with the bethany sisters
| | SOC shining hope. In that voice which
| spake until the grave broke and the widow OF
! Main had back her lo,t son, and the sea slept,
and sorrow stlptndouS woke up in the arms
! OF rapturc-in that Voice hear the command
! and the promise: Cast thy burden
on tn Lord, and He will sustain thee Why
should you carry your burdens any longer.
! Oh, You weary soul, Christ been in this
! conflict He saw: MY grace shall be suffi-
! cent for You. You shall not I've tempted
! ABOVE that you are are able to bear There
! fore with all Your temptations, go, rs these
| disciples did, and tell Jesus
Again: l commend the behavior oc the
, disciples 10 all those who are abused and
! slaudered and prosecuted. When ierod put
/ John to death, the disciples knew that their
! own heads were not SAFE. And do you know
! that every John has Hcrod: There are
persons IN life who do no. wish you very
well. Your miSlortuneS are houeycombs to
them Through their teeth they hiss at
: You mlsnterpret your motives, and would DO
glad to see You upset. No man gets through
life without having punilnelling. Some SIAN
! der comes after yOn, horned and tllSked and
hoofed, to gore and trample you; and what
are You to DO: tell you plainly that all who
serve Christ must suffer persecution. 1t is
the worst sign in the world for you to be able
to say: Il haven't an enemy in the world"
D.
one OF whom everybody speaks well. Ii you
ae AZ peace with all the world and every
body likes you and approves your work, it is
because you are an idler in the Lords vine
yard, and are not doing yonr duty,
:. II those who have served Christ, however
eminent have been maltreatei a. some stage
of their experience. You know it was so 10
the time of George Whitcfieli, when he stood
and invited men into the kingdom of God
What did the learned Dr. Johnson say OF
him, He pronounced him miserable mounta-
bank How was it when Robert Hall stood
and spoke as scarcely any mSnspirtd man
ever did speak Of the glories OF Heaven
and as he stood Sabbath after Sabbath
preaching on these themes his face kinileu
with the glory. John Foster, a Christian
man, said of this man: Rnoert nan IS olly
acting, and the smile on his face + retlec
tion 81 his owu yanitT" John Wes.cT turned
all England upside down with CHRISTIAN re-
FORM and vet the punsterS were AFTER hihi
and the maanest Jokes in England were per
petrated about John Wesley. What Is true
of the pulpit i, time of the pew; it Is true or
the street, it j. true Of the shop and the store
All who viii live godly in Christ Jesus must
suffer persecution.
And set it down as the very worst sign IN
all your Christian experience If you arr any
of you, at peace with ali the world, The re-
lirion of Christ is war. 1t is q challenge 70
':the world, the flesh and the devil;' and II
yo:. will buckle on the whole armor of God,
VIII fm AIT grsat aeSs diSeatt~S ESar path
to do when you are assaulted and slandered
. and abused, as suppose nearly oil of you
have been in your hte! Go oIt and hunt M
the slanderer. Oh, no, silly mani While you
areexplaining away a fa!sehood IN one place
fifty people will just have heard OF 1t III othei
places.
counsel you to another course. while
YOU are not to omit any opportunity or set
ting yourselves right, want to tell You thi:
morning of one who had the hardest things
said about Him, whose sobriety was disputed
whose mission was secuted, whose compan
ionship was denounced, who was pursued a:
n babe and spit upon as a man. who was
howled at after He was dead. l will have
You go unto Him with your bruised soul, il
! some humble, child -prayer, saying: - sex
. Thy wounds-wounl Ills Of head, wounds Of
5 feet, wounds of heart. Now, look at my
wounds, and see what have suffered, ano
through what battles l am going: and en-
e treat Thee, by those wounds of Thine, sym
E pathize with me- And he will sympathize
, and He will help. Go and tell Jesus!
J Again: / commend the behavior OF thu
disciples to all who may have been bereaved
, How many in garb Of mourning! II you coult
] stand Mt this point where am standing an
look Off upon this audience, how many signals
Of sorrow you would behold. God has Hi
s own way OF taking apart family. We mus
, get out Of the way for coming generations
| We must get off the stage that others may
/ come on and for this reason there is Ions
9 procession reaching down all the time int
! the valley Of shadows
! This emigration from time into eternity
. 10 vast an enterprise, that We cannot under
/ stand it, Every hour we hear the clanS O
| the sepulchral gate. The sod must be broken
; The ground must be ploughed for resurrec
= ton harvest. Eternity must be peop!ed
: The dust must press our eyelids. 1T IS ap
a pointed unto ali men once to die This emi
h grafton from time into eternity keeps three
q fourths of the families of the earth in desola
ton The air is rent with farewells and tn
;; black tasselled vehicles Of death rumble
4 through every street.
4 The body of the child that was folded 81
: closely to the mothers heart is put away IL
0 the cold and the darkness. The laughte
; freezes to the girls lip, and the rose scattels
r The boy in the harvest field of Shunam says
\ envy head my head !" and they carry hin
: home to die on the lap of his mother. Widow
D hood stands witt, rasedies of woe struck int
o the pallor of the cheek Orphanage cries il
' VAIN for father and mother. Oh, the grav
/ is cruel! With teeth of stone, it clutches TO
+ its prey Between the closing gates OF tn
sepulchre, our hearts are mangled ant
d crushed Is there any earthly solace
r Nome We come to the obseQuies
D we sit with the grief-stricken, we talk pa
I thetically to their soul but soon the obSequi \
. have passed. the carriages have left rs at thu